Concern over the American-backed expedition of Lewis and Clark prompted the North West Company to charge Thompson with the task of finding a route to the Pacific in order to open up the lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest.

The Company of Guinea was a Portuguese governative institution whose task was to deal with the spices and to fix the prices of the goods.

His role in the city was ostensibly that of an ambassador but as Bengal was increasingly under the dominance of the East India Company he was often given the task of issuing orders to the new Nawab on behalf of Clive and the Calcutta authorities.

During Mir Jafar's reign the East India Company exerted an increasingly large role in the running of the region, and effectively took over the defence of Bengal against external invaders when Bengal's troops proved insufficient for the task.

Number Two Company was allocated a task of training Afghan National Police recruits at various Police Training Centres.

Chapter 123 of the 1826 Session Laws of Maryland, passed February 28, 1827, and the Commonwealth of Virginia on March 8, 1827, chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, with the task of building a railroad from the port of Baltimore west to a suitable point on the Ohio River.

After obtaining his Ph. D., his first job was in research for Parke, Davis and Company, and his first task was to isolate the hormone associated with the thyroid gland.

A task force including the 1st Battalion, less ' A ' Company but reinforced by ' C ' Company, 2nd Battalion, and the Pathfinder Platoon, elements of the Special Air Service ( SAS ), the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force were dispatched to the country.

The main task of the new Company, all of whose members were previously members of other London Companies, was dominated by retailers – often those working with china, which was then imported from China in large-scale lots for sale to retailers at auction.

While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscany could join, the Academy comprised only the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo ’ s court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the medicean state.

Task Force Blue and Charlie Company 4 / 503 drew the job of going to the relief of the beleaguered task force.

Nevertheless, in company lots, the 1st Battalion moved up and began filling in the gaps between the assault battalions, while engineers from the 2nd Field Company began the task of extending the tunnels from The Pimple towards the new Australian line.

At 1400 hours ( 2: 00 PM ), " A " Company and the Scout Platoon were recalled from their diversionary task and moved to a supporting position on the friendly side of the crossing.

Sir Harry Johnston, became Commissioner of the African Lakes Company, and immediately realized that he was going to have a hard time fulfilling the task given him by His Majesty ’ s Government in Britain, namely:

Further up the ridge, A Company — under Major Ben O ' Dowd — faced a tougher task, and came under heavy attack.

The task force is composed of: Team Yankee, C Company ( Captain Craven ) a standard infantry company, D Company, and another armor-heavy Team Bravo.

The Company of Guinea was a Portuguese governative institution whose task was to deal with the spices and to fix the prices of the goods.

Second Platoon of the 6th Company, led by SS-Lieutenant Erckardt had a task to lead the company.

In 1850, the Michigan State Legislature established the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company, which set about converting various Indian trails into the Lansing – Howell Plank Road, a task the company completed by 1853.

In 1850, the Michigan State Legislature established the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company, which set about converting various Indian trails into the Lansing – Howell Plank Road, a task the company completed by 1853.

While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscan should join, the Academy was constituted only by the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo ’ s court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the medicean state.

C Company under the then Major Frost was given the task and on 27 February 1942 120 men landed, meeting stiff opposition but succeeded in stealing the component as well as capturing a German expert on the radar.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

It is the Technical Committees that, formally, approve a British Standard, which is then presented to the Secretary of the supervisory Sector Board for endorsement of the fact that the Technical Committee has indeed completed a task for which it was constituted.

This task fell to John Marshall, who, even though recently appointed Chief Justice of the United States, continued as the acting Secretary of State at President Adams's personal request.

" In August, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson set up a task force to study the response of U. S. prisoners of war to brainwashing.

* Office of Global AIDS Coordinator: President's main task force to combat global AIDS The Global AIDS Coordinator reports directly to the Secretary of State.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.

In 1817, the deplorable state of the War Department led four men to turn down requests to fill the Secretary of War position before Calhoun finally accepted the task.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

The Permanent Council of the Francophonie gathers the Ambassadors of the member countries, chaired by the General Secretary of the Francophonie and under the authority of the Ministerial Conference, its main task is to plan Summits.

General Assembly the task of appointing the Secretary General.

In response to the view handed down at the time of Ireland's Famine that “ The judgement of God … sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated ”( Charles E. Trevelyan-Permanent Assistant Secretary at the British Treasury with prime responsibility for Famine relief in Ireland ), Graham's song calls to task a vengeful God :-

Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.

Due to his past military experiences in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and his reconstruction efforts in northern Iraq during Operation Provide Comfort, Garner's credentials and close ties to the U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made him an obvious choice for the task.

Instead of using existing Defense Department historians, McNamara assigned his close aide and Assistant Secretary of Defense John T. McNaughton, McNaughton's aide Morton H. Halperin, and Defense Department official Leslie H. Gelb to lead the task force.

When Rifkind became Secretary of State his first task was to defuse a teachers dispute which was crippling Scottish education.

The 14-member task force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Defense Secretary William Cohen, outlined " a national blueprint to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.

Washington appointed McHenry Secretary of War in 1796 and immediately assigned him the task of facilitating the transition of Western military posts from Great Britain ’ s control, one of the terms of the Jay Treaty.

On June 5, 2008, Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed Schlesinger to head a task force to ensure the " highest levels " of control over nuclear weapons.

On June 5, 2008, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that he had asked Schlesinger to lead a senior-level task force to recommend improvements in the stewardship and operation of nuclear weapons, delivery vehicles and sensitive components by the US DoD following the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident.

The confidence between the two principals was momentarily strained by Reagan's belated support in the Falklands War, but this was more than countered by the Anglophile US Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, who provided communications intercepts and approved shipments of the latest weapons to the massing British task force.